Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam explains the scheduling conflicts that led to his absence from the sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising.
All of a sudden, it became their primary focus to make [Pacific Rim: Uprising] and they wanted to do it very, very rapidly …
Hunnam says that despite the lull following the first Pacific Rim, the sequel moved forward quickly after the film’s production company Legendary Entertainment was sold to the Chinese corporation Wanda.
“Although it underperformed in other territories in the world, [Pacific Rim] was an enormous success in China.